As part of my silver arts award I needed to research training and job opportunities to help me decide what I want to do in the future. I went to Kings Lynn arts centre.
On the day I went they were really busy making preparations for a fair they were having later in the day called fair in the square. Quite a few of the jobs I was asked to do during the morning were either to do with the fair or an exhibition opening the next day displaying watercolours by a local artist.
Most of the morning I went round with one of the girls who worked there full time and helped her with any job she was asked to do. This included things like stuffing envelopes with the arts centre's summer brochure, buying flowers for the fair in the square and making signs for the watercolour exhibition.
Obviously this was only a morning of helping out, but I really enjoyed it, and it gave me an insight of the amount of work it takes to put on an exhibition (much greater than I had imagined). However, although the work is hard and the staff work long and unusual hours, it was a really positive place to work, and left me with the feeling that working in a gallery or exhibition space is a real option - not 9 to 5, but not desk bound either.
Meghan
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